Notes

Build logs from shipping apps, macOS tools and multiplayer games. Mostly the parts that turned out harder, or stranger, than expected.

The x.ai orb does not do what you think

I wanted an interactive avatar, so I took the orb apart. It never reacts to your cursor at all.

Magic peripherals store exactly one pairing. The fix was to stop fighting that and script the divorce.

A monitor app wanted $23 for one feature. Building it myself turned out to be a tour of a protocol from 1998.

One Word asks for a single word. People shipped entire sentences through it, and they were right to.

The hard part was never multiplayer. It was deciding how much of the rulebook the table should enforce.

Editing app screenshots should not feel like a production workflow, so I built the thing that fixes it.